The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-17
THE CAR CRAZED BY DRINK
An English officers Story of the Deplor-
able Condition of Russia's Ruler.
Mr.. Balfour Refuses to Consent to an Official
Inquiry Concerning the Bodyke Evictions
False Alarm About the Dynamiters.
RUSsIA'S RULER.
An English Officer Reports that the Gear Is q
Hopeless and Dangerous Sot.

An English Officer Reports that the Gear Is q
Hopeless and Dangerous Sot.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
LONDON June 16-A British officer who re-
Gently paid visit to Russia tells a startling
story of the mental and physical condition of the
Gear, in accounting for the erratc foreign pol
icy of Russia Alexander III, he says, shortly
after the assassination of his father, had re-
course to stimulants in order to nerve himself
sufficiently TO meet the real and imaginary dan
gers which beset him. and the habit rapidly be-
came of necessity rather than choice.
From this point began what would have
been, to in private life, his
downward career, but the divinity that erecss
and maintains a well-kept and evergreen hedge
around sovereign also dulls the senses of his
subjects to indifference to whether he is q
drunkard or not This. however. the Gar of
Russia is-a hopeless and ofttimes a helpless
sot. Among those nearest to him it is we'll
known, but never mentioned except in whispers,
that he has several times suffered from that most
frightful of all species of insanity, delirium
tremens, and, the narrator alleges. his
unfortunate as to come under his hand upon
those occasions would have appealed to the finer
sensblities of the King of Dahomey, and caused
that fiendish monarch TO shed tears OF compass
sion. In his lucid intervals he is reasonable and
even sagacious, but when under the influence of
champagne or brandy, which two liquors most
delight the imperial palate, not even his Minis
ters and least of all his wife and children can
strain his tendency to imperil his personal safety
by exposing himself TO the attacks Of secret foes
in his ungovernable recklessness
It ia told of this imperial maniac that one
occasion NJ. De Giers driven from the
Cars presence with language unfit to be
heard in the lowest haunts of infamy. after
having been summoned by his sovereign
port upon some matter affecting Russia's for
eign policy, and that the Cars conduct so out
ragged M. De Giers that he was only induced to
retain his office at the earnest entreaty of
friends and upon the Cars subsequent
apology. Upon the slightest intimasion of
the details of such outbreaks. which are
growing more and moro frequent, it
is the fashion to mention that
this Minister or that court official is about to re-
sign on the ground of ill-health, or for the pur-
pose of accepting some other position but to
those ACC TAINTED with the true condition of the
Cars moral health, these reports invariably
have the same significance, and had one-third OF
the commands issued peremptorily by the EN-
peror when he was too drunk to know or care
what he was doing, been carried out. Russia
would have long ago been at war with every
power in Europe.
Ever since the accession of Alexander III to
the throne of Russia it has seemed quite safe to
predict that he would ultimately meet death at
the hands of the Nihilists. whose destroying
power also created his own. This prediction
may be fulfilled, but it seems vastly moro likely
that the Emperor will die by the hand of some
outraged and Infatuated member of his own
household or government If he does not soon sue
coed in forestalling that fate by joining his faith
or through the medium of the bottle